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A Time Odyssey, Book 2
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Bisesa's questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun's core - an anomaly that has no natural cause, evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now, plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition, in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life through a bombardment of deadly radiation.
Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...
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It's more about science, engineering, physics and astronomy.
just loved it and going forward to the third book.
the narrator is superb in this one.
much better than the first book in the series
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Amazing Old School Imaginative Sci Fi
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Excellent book
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Second book of an excellent series
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Short story at best..
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Great continuation
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Sunstorm
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Excellent
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Neither Clarke or Baxter are known for character development. The are know for Science and showing the epic size of our Universe. This book is no different from the most of what Clarke writes, so if you like Clarke you will like this. I have always been interested in our Sun and there is a lot here on the Sun. If you are not into science or the Sun then you will not want this book.
I liked the old fashioned Can Do attitude of this book. I am not sure I have the confidence in the human race to work together, as suggested here, but it was nice to dream. I also believe having one big shield instead of several small shields, may have been a little old fashioned. In the eighties we thought one big lens for Hubble was the way to go. After putting it into space and having nothing but problems with the lens, we discovered that a group of smaller lenses working together would have worked better and that is the way our big telescopes are being built today.
Some may be offended by Clarke's views on religion. If you have read Clarke before you know he hates religion and blames them for the woes of the earth. He also makes it plain here again that people who believe in a Creator are Idiots. He also uses again, the Star of Bethlehem, to represent evil. I am able to look past this, but you might not. Clarke is dead now, so he is finding out the truth.
I was a little surprised by the anti Chinese sentiment in this book. I laughed at Clarke and Baxter's, couple of attempts at sex scenes. You could certainly tell two nerds wrote them. At the beginning there is an attempt to show sympathy for a pretty person being taken serious in a group of scientist. There was more feeling shown for an AI dying then for millions of people dying, or one scientist's own daughter. One AI was even the biggest hero. Clarke believes that if everyone was educated we would not have wars. I believe it would help, but Clarke has evidently not seen what happens when a group of tenured College PHD's, don't want someone with different political views entering there departments.
I often have different views on John Lee's strange voice and his lack of doing different voices, even between genders, but I felt he fit this book well.
Educated people won't War?
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There are some minor distractions, here is one that I found especially worrying, the date of the initial sun storm is June 9th, which most people would not notice, is 6-9, as in the sex number 69. And you, like me, might be saying, "that could be a coincidence"... well, I recall while hearing that date thinking, "That is distracting. At least he didn't put it on 4-20."
Wanna guess what date the second and more devastating sun storm occurs? April 20th. Stupid, minor author joke that happens in the same book which has a lengthy and lovely section talking about the age of miracles. Annoying.
Biggest complaint is how it hooks into the last book in the series and how different these two are in tone. The author seems to have no idea what to do with the one character from the first book that appears in this one as they appear in the narrative, dawdle around, and add nothing to the plot. I feel that had her reappearance to the story been at the very end of the book, telling the cast of this story the horrifying truth that the aliens called the "First Born" are the ones behind the sun storm and telling them about the events of the first book leading into the 3rd book would have been better. Would have also allowed this book and book 1 to be side-quels to one another rather than this one trying and failing to be a sequel.
Last thing, I don't think that the ultimate fallout from the sun storm was bad enough. While the death toll is horrifying, it was still not big enough for the kind of disaster that is the center of this story.
Quite Good
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